Too Risky For Art: Richie Hawtin And The Guggenheim Museum

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Too Risky For Art: Richie Hawtin And The Guggenheim Museum

It’s no secret that here at Stoneys, when the dance music and art world collaborate, we tend to have a little froth at the mouth. But one of our favourites Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman), set to play at the world famous Guggenheim Museum tonight, has come forward preaching that it’s a risk for those brave producers who are willing to step into confronting spaces.

Talking with the Arts Desk, Hawtin spoke of the complexities of moving into such a space, stepping out into the sphere of an arena uncontrolled by the usual back-ups of night club performance.

To those whom are of the opinion that club performance is very cut and dry, Hawtin kinda gives it the backing;

“You lose the comfortability of being able to walk into just about any club in the world with no preparation and have a great potential of rocking it, so it’s a step out of the comfort zone.

Adding;

“There is actually the potential for people being more open minded than the crowd in the average club, so although there’s a risk and although it is that step outside the comfort zone, there’s a more open playing field.”

Whether or not to the self-detriment or not of Plastikman’s general club set, the idea of a producer striving to make sounds to be on par with, or even challenge an experimental art space is a concept we can really get around (or maybe we can’t? Isn’t art subjective? Let me muse and stroke my beard awhile).

Hawtin also preaches the good word about utilising commercial art spaces to be the foreground of introduction to a new audience for dance music stating, “You always have the gain of potentially touching people who’ve never heard of you or listened to music and just bringing them closer in to electronic music in general.”

We’re all for RH touching us with his dance music…amongst other things. In all seriousness though, the Guggenheim Museum, with its incredibly large and spherical structure (check out the photo below, and thats just exterior) – making it easy to fuck with one’s depth perception and generally warping with the mind –  is probably the perfect place for him to play. Hell minimalist. Hel min. HM.

Guggenheim Museum

[via Mixmag]

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